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    2025 NFL Draft thread - Round 1

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    Just now, Mango said:

     

    Agreed. For me the overpay is the 2026 1 on top of a 1, 2, and 4 this year.

     

    And considering how bad the Jags might be (for example of Lawrence gets hurt), that might be a very valuable pick next year.

     

    Am I misremembering, but didn't someone once move up from 10 to 3 for just a 3rd? Raiders-Dolphins?

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    Miami Herald: Dolphins players have turned on McDaniel

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    19 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:

    I never said Mike McDaniel had talent to be playing or starting 

     

    I said Walk-Ons have to bust their asses and work very very hard 

     

    I said Mike McDaniel had to have been super tough and a very hard worker to be a four-year walk on at a division 1 School

     

    And I thought ivy League schools gave out academic scholarships not athletic scholarships..  regardless they still recruit 

     

    https://news.springisd.org/2024/02/spring-isd-learning-fair-ignites-collaboration-growth-for-200-educators/

     

    Dr. Hinojosa also took the opportunity to spotlight some outstanding student achievements, including Winship Elementary fourth-grader Abigail John, a published author, and Dekaney High School senior Christian Nwosu, who earned a scholarship to Harvard University. 

     

    Last sentence that I copied talks about Christian nwosu a three-star defensive end who says earned a scholarship to Harvard.. he's on their football team but they obviously gave him something

     

    If I recall correctly you were originally using McDaniel’s record as an Ivy walk-on to imply that he would be respected by NFL players as being similar to them in a way they’d respect from an athletic perspective.

     

    But the level of athletic talent in the Ivy League generally (much less at the literal bottom of the roster) is a whole lot lower than the NFL much less major college ball/conferences that they almost literally all come from, so I’m not sure about your supposition. 
     

    They may respect his hard work as a coach, but I highly doubt they give much thought to his record as a player.

     

    And the Ivies have a policy that anyone who gets in gets the money to go. That’s how I attended—my parents made about $25k/yr in today’s dollars….

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    Miami Herald: Dolphins players have turned on McDaniel

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    1 minute ago, Buffalo716 said:

    You're funny

     

    I literally never said he was a great football player.. I know how hard it is to walk on at a division one football school it's hard

     

    He had to work hard you think he twiddle this thumbs

    So you're saying your friend didn't go to practice or work hard? They just let him on the team to twiddle his thumbs

    Oh, he did work hard—but he did not have the talent to be recruited or to play in games and the coaching staff let him walk on because the Ivies aren’t the cut throat world of the major conferences you were mentioning in the same breadth with them as if they are comparable. You also initially (and incorrectly) talked about Ivy kids getting scholarships which they don’t.

     

    i can ask my nephew next time I see him. He coaches at Princeton.

    Miami Herald: Dolphins players have turned on McDaniel

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    4 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:

    Dude he literally made the varsity program 

     

    He had to have been doing something in practice to at least reach walk on at the varsity program 

     

    You're just a hater.. if he spent four years on the JV team sure 

     

    He literally made the varsity program

    The part you’re forgetting is that it was Yale.

     

    No one was on scholarship. They are there by and large to get a degree and go into business, tech, law, academia (a few), etc. The more athletically-minded might consider coaching.

     

    While it’s improved drastically in the last 20-30 years, it’s still a huge long shot for an Ivy kid to be considering the pros.

     

    I went to Columbia in the 1980’s—my class broke the losing streak and did not win a single game in 4 years. I didn’t play football, but it’s a small school and literally 10% of the boys there in my freshman class were football players, so I know a lot of them and have a lot of respect for them as student athletes.

     

    That said, I had a buddy who walked on. I don’t think he started at Pittsford Sutherland his freshman year there (he later transferred to Staples in CT), but walked on at Columbia. Practiced every week, but rarely did played. I think MM may have been similar from what I’ve read.

     

    Things worked out fine for my buddy. Became COO of the energy trading business of another player (who’s currently a minority owner of the Texans) and retired in his mid-40’s with trips to Ibiza twice a year…..

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    Famous Buffalo Bills fans

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    9 hours ago, aristocrat said:

    Bill Pullman is on the board of Alfred university. I think he’s from the finger lakes area 

    He's from Hornell.

     

    My mother grew up across the street from him and actually used to babysit him and his (many--5?) siblings. I believe his dad was a heart doctor at the local hospital and my grandmother was a nurse at the same hospital.

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    **tickets are spoken for (by a Bills fan) GO BILLS!**

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    1 hour ago, BigAl2526 said:

    Unless I get handicap tags for my car, I'm afraid my in person attendance days are over.  Just too much walking.  Neither my legs nor my lungs will take it any more.

    You should talk to the Bills. They used to have folks who will meet you in the parking lot and wheel you into and out of the stadium. I used them with my dad before he passed away. They were great.

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    Brady under fire for calling Josh a "spaz" on Sunday's broadcast...

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    I was not aware of the derogatory nature of the term in the UK—it sounds like it’s akin there to “R” word here, a word that immediately tells me the speaker using it is a jerk. 
     

    I grew up in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s—back then it was slightly derogatory, but not offensively so.

     

    All that said, Brady has actually done lots and lots of charity work for years with the mentally and physically handicapped (it’s one of the few things I’ve admired him for) and I’m sure meant nothing derogatory by it. He’d probably be mortified that it could be taken this way.
     

    I think I just threw up in my mouth a little having to defend Tom Brady…..

    Ticketmaster.ca ???

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    18 minutes ago, Savage said:

    Yeah,

     

     

    If you want my tickets send me a PM with your email address.

    16 minutes ago, mrags said:

    I’ve had issues with selling tix on the app since just before week 1. They did some kind of update and between the bills app and the link with Tm there’s been an issue. 

    Had to take a loss on mine. 

    Yup. I tried to lower the price, but no luck. I trust Ticketmaster as far as I can throw them.

    NFL feeding itself to the sharks (Private Equity)

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    1 hour ago, Ed_Formerly_of_Roch said:

     

    Could be Mike Brown didn't know what a private equity firm is??

    I’m kind of surprised he voted against—I strongly suspect this is all about liquidity for owners like him (and Mark Davis) who don’t have large assets outside his team. This allow them to get liquidity out of an illiquid asset. Can come in handy for things like family succession or divorces even, as well as just general funds for high in the hog living expenses. 

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